Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Collégialité
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The seminar will be devoted to archaistic practices in ancient societies. It will be to explore the different modalities of these practices that we, Modernes, qualify as archaistic, in the fields both political and religious as well as artistic and linguistic, and to grasp the main ideological issues. All the specialties (History, History of art and archaeology, Philology, Papyrology, Epigraphy, Numismatics) and all the fields of antiquity (ancient Middle East, Greece, Rome) will be represented.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The aim of this seminar is to make students particularly aware of the need to engage the different disciplines of antiquity in their research: Philology, History, History of art and archaeology, Epigraphy, Numismatics...
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
None -bearing in mind that History, Archaeology, Philology, Epigraphy, Numismatics, History of religions and History of art form an inseparable whole, which brings together all the specialists of the Altertumswissenschaft.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Inter-Departmental collegiality:
- participation of specialists of Antiquity from the Department of Historical Sciences and the Department of Sciences of Antiquity.
- possible conferences of foreign speakers.
Recommended or required readings
The course materials and the bibliographical advice will be given by each specialist at the seminar.
Assessment methods and criteria
Writing of a small research work of about ten pages (excluding bibliography and possible annexes) on a topic related to the seminar and defined in agreement with one of the teachers-researchers directly involved in the organization of the course (at exclusion of the student's supervisor).
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The seminar will be held each week, from Thursday 8th February 2018 (every Thursday 17.00-19.00/Grand Physique, Bât. A1, 1er étage).
Contacts
Coordinateur Pr. Dr. Yann Berthelet Chargé de cours. Université de Liège, Bât. A4 - Histoire de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, Quai Roosevelt 1B, 4000 Liège - Belgique +32 4 3665606 Yann.Berthelet@ulg.ac.be